The PCIe power cable (8 or 16 pin) to your graphics card always seems to be a cable that is not easily manged in a build. Since nearly all cases come with a glass side panel, you're going to see it quite easily. This new power connector built in to motherboards solves that problem.
No more 16-pin 12VHPWR issues.
www.tomshardware.com
Anybody who thinks clean routing of one cable solves PC cable mgmt, please come work magic on my desk!
But this particular problem has already been solved: it's called a Mac Studio, or iPhone!
Glibness aside, 600W at 12V is 50A, which is why that GPU cable is fat. But you can imagine it being squashed flat and routed through a plane of the mainboard. Ok, so it's just going to appear as a fat connector over on the other side of the board! Fine. But on that other side it's already packed with anachronisms.
Apple already solved all of this!
Of course if you must keep adding more, US residential wall circuits are good for about 2000W before they trip.
This "feature" shows the PC-AT form factor is bloated and continues out of excess the same way that muscle cars and SUVs continue out of excess.
Only problem is the solution has become problem!
When you can get 20 TFLOPS in an integrated GPU you can no longer look at any consumer device as being compute limited.
And history has shown silicon integration utterly defies commonsense expectations of power / performance. And will continue to do so.
Fiddling around with GPU connectors that occupy as much board area for electrical contact as could home TBs of commodities flash looks ridiculous.
Since the Mac Studio, PCs are officially archaic!
